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Diffstat (limited to 'Misc/NEWS')
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1 files changed, 38 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -2,10 +2,44 @@ ==> Release 1.4 (October 25 1996) <== ===================================== -(XXX Sorry, this is in totally random order. I hope I can find the -time to fix it.) +(Starting in reverse chronological order:) -- Changed copyright. +- Changed disclaimer notice. + +- Added SHELL=/bin/sh to Misc/Makefile.pre.in -- some Make versions +default to the user's login shell. + +- In Lib/tkinter/Tkinter.py, removed bogus binding of <Delete> in Text +widget, and bogus bspace() function. + +- In Lib/cgi.py, bumped __version__ to 2.0 and restored a truncated +paragraph. + +- Fixed the NT Makefile (PC/vc40.mak) for VC 4.0 to set /MD for all +subprojects, and to remove the (broken) experimental NumPy +subprojects. + +- In Lib/py_compile.py, cast mtime to long() so it will work on Mac +(where os.stat() returns mtimes as floats.) +- Set self.rfile unbuffered (like self.wfile) in SocketServer.py, to +fix POST in CGIHTTPServer.py. + +- Version 2.83 of Misc/python-mode.el for Emacs is included. + +- In Modules/regexmodule.c, fixed symcomp() to correctly handle a new +group starting immediately after a group tag. + +- In Lib/SocketServer.py, changed the mode for rfile to unbuffered. + +- In Objects/stringobject.c, fixed the compare function to do the +first char comparison in unsigned mode, for consistency with the way +other characters are compared by memcmp(). + +- In Lib/tkinter/Tkinter.py, fixed Scale.get() to support floats. + +- In Lib/urllib.py, fix another case where openedurl wasn't set. + +(XXX Sorry, the rest is in totally random order. No time to fix it.) - SyntaxError exceptions detected during code generation (e.g. assignment to an expression) now include a line number. @@ -92,7 +126,7 @@ will execute os.system("rm -f *") when unpickling. - dis.py will print the name of local variables referenced by local load/store/delete instructions. -- Improved portability of SimpleHttpServer module to non-Unix +- Improved portability of SimpleHTTPServer module to non-Unix platform. - The thread.h interface adds an extra argument to down_sema(). This |